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Nolan M. Kennedy has practiced law on the Monterey Peninsula since 1973, primarily in the areas of business transactions, business and non-profit organizations, real estate and health care law. He has written and lectured extensively in legal areas and is co-author of the chapter on Options in Real Estate Transactions, published by the California Continuing Education of the Bar. Mr. Kennedy is active in the local community. He is on the Board of Directors of the Monterey County Property Owners Association, serving two terms as president. He served 11 years on the board for the Carmel Bach Festival, and is a past board member of the Monterey Peninsula Chamber of Commerce and Volunteers in Action among other community organizations. He is on the Board of Directors of the Monterey County United Way, and was Chair of the Board for 2004-2005. Currently, he is a member of the State Bar of California and the Monterey County Bar Association, for which he served on the Executive Committee, and the American Health Lawyers Association. Mr. Kennedy is a graduate of Baylor University in Texas and the University of California Hastings College of Law. While in law school, Mr. Kennedy received the Order of the Coif, and was a member and managing editor of the Hastings Law Journal.


Nolan M. Kennedy

nkennedy@kahlaw.net

   
Daniel F. Archer has practiced law on the Monterey Peninsula since 1988. Mr. Archer's primary areas of practice cover commercial transactions, including real estate acquisitions, dispositions, development and leasing, construction, commercial lending and joint ventures. Mr. Archer is a graduate of California State University at Sacramento (B.S. 1985) and Santa Clara University School of Law (J.D. 1988). While in law school, Mr. Archer was an editor of the Santa Clara University Law Review. In 1987-1988, Mr. Archer clerked for The Honorable Nat Agliano, Presiding Justice of the California Court of Appeal, Sixth District. Mr. Archer is a member and former board member of the Rotary Club of Monterey, was a founding board member of the Monterey Peninsula chapter of the American Heart Association, and is a member of the State Bar of California, the Monterey County Bar Association and the American Bar Association.


Daniel F. Archer

darcher@kahlaw.net

   
Jon R. Giffen has practiced law in Monterey County since 1996 after moving from San Francisco, where he specialized in civil defense litigation with the firm of Ropers, Majeski, Kohn & Bentley. Mr. Giffen specializes in all aspects of trial practice in the fields of casualty, employment, public entity defense, products liability, business and real estate litigation. Mr. Giffen currently serves on the court-appointed arbitration panels in Monterey, Santa Cruz and San Benito counties. Mr. Giffen is a graduate of the University of California at Davis and Santa Clara University Law School. He serves on the Executive Committee of the Monterey County Bar Association and is a member of the State Bar of California, the Santa Clara Bar Association, the Northern California Association of Defense Counsel, the Monterey Defense Research Institute and the Rotary Club of Monterey.


Jon R. Giffen

jgiffen@kahlaw.net

   

Richard K. Harray has practiced as a trial lawyer on the Monterey Peninsula since 1968, except for a sabbatical from the practice of law from 2003 to 2008, during which time he perfected his skill as a photographer in Angel’s Camp, California. Mr. Harray is currently “of counsel” to the firm engaged in trial work, primarily in business disputes, corporate and partnership dissolutions and other complex litigation matters. Mr. Harray litigates in the fields of business disputes, medical, legal and design malpractice, municipal law and employment issues. He is a graduate of Northwestern University (B.A. 1964) and Stanford Law School (LL.B. 1967). After law school, Mr. Harray served as law clerk to Justice Roy Gargano, California Court of Appeal, 6th District. He has served as a judge pro tem, arbitrator and mediator. The American Board of Trial Advocates named Mr. Harray as an advocate in 1991. He is a member of the State Bar of California and is admitted to the U.S. District Court, Northern California.


Richard K. Harray

   
Stan L. Linker has a wealth of experience as a trial lawyer, having tried over 150 cases throughout California's Central Coast. Mr. Linker has litigated cases in both state and federal court (including mass tort, multi-district litigation). Mr. Linker's practice emphasizes insurance defense, design professional law, construction defects, products liability, public entity and business law. Mr. Linker is a past board member of the Northern California Association of Defense Counsel (ADC), and a member of the American Bar Association, the State Bar of California and the Monterey County Bar Association (Treasurer, 1983; Executive Committee, 1980). He is a former member of the Monterey County Trial Lawyers Association (President, 1985-1986), California Trial Lawyers Association (board member, Board of Directors, 1985-1986), Salinas United Way (Board of Directors) and Salinas Host Lions Club (officer and board member). Mr. Linker is a graduate of California State University, Fresno and McGeorge School of Law, University of the Pacific. While in law school, Mr. Linker was a member of the Moot Court Honors Board.


Stan L. Linker

slinker@kahlaw.net

   
David A. Willoughby is a native of Monterey and has practiced law on the Monterey Peninsula since 1981. His practice focuses primarily in the areas of business and commercial transactions, business entity formation and operation, real estate transactions and development, and public entity representation. He is a graduate of the University of California at Santa Barbara (B.A. in Law and Society 1978) and the University of California at Berkeley’s Boalt Hall School of Law (J.D. 1981). Mr. Willoughby has long been active in professional associations, having served on the Executive Committee of the Monterey County Barristers and as its President; as a delegate to the California State Bar Conference of Delegates including a term as Chair of the Monterey delegation; and as a member of the Executive Committee of the Monterey County Bar Association. He has also served on the Legal Committee Steering Group for the Airport Council International - North America and is a founding member of the California Airport Attorneys Roundtable. He has lectured to professional associations on topics including transparency in government and ethics in public entity representation. Mr. Willoughby has continuously maintained active involvement in the local community by participating as a volunteer at air shows, golf tournaments, food and music festivals, and other local charitable events. He has served on the Board of Directors of the Sports Car Racing Association of the Monterey Peninsula and the Monterey Bay Area Council of the Boy Scouts of America. Mr. Willoughby served as a member of the Monterey County Civil Grand Jury in 2009 and 2010.

David A. Willoughby
David A. Willoughby

dwilloughby@kahlaw.net

   

David W. Balch is a graduate of Columbia University and the Georgetown University Law Center (magna cum laude). While in law school, Mr. Balch received the Order of the Coif, and he was a member and articles editor of the Georgetown Law Journal. In 1995-96, Mr. Balch clerked for Judge Frank Magill of the United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit. Mr. Balch has significant experience with large, complex commercial litigation, having spent six years in big firm practice in New York City, first with Cravath, Swaine and Moore, and more recently with O'Sullivan LLP. Mr. Balch moved to the Monterey Peninsula in 2002 and has worked at Kennedy, Archer & Harray since then. Mr. Balch’s practice emphasizes complex litigation and all aspects of trial practice in the fields of casualty, public entity defense, and business and real estate litigation. Mr. Balch is a member of the State Bar of California.


David W. Balch

dbalch@kahlaw.net

   

Gregory E. Bullard is a graduate of California State University, Fresno (cum laude) and McGeorge School of Law, University of the Pacific. While in law school, Mr. Bullard concentrated on tax matters and clerked for the Kings County District Attorney’s Office, local Sacramento law firms and for the University. Mr. Bullard was admitted to the California State Bar in 1998. While practicing for nearly ten years in the Central Valley of California, Mr. Bullard specialized in civil and business litigation and transactional matters including tax, employment, real estate, business formation and dissolution, education, agriculture, family law, and public entity and insurance defense. In 2007, Mr. Bullard and his family relocated to the Monterey Peninsula. He is a member of the Monterey County Bar Association, the California Bar Association and the American Bar Association. He is also a member of the Association of Defense Counsel of Northern California and Nevada and is active in the local community. His practice focuses on civil litigation, including the defense of tort claims involving personal injury, construction defect, business contract disputes, public entity defense and family law.


Gregory E. Bullard

gbullard@kahlaw.net

   
Cassie Bronson graduated, cum laude, from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law in 2009. During law school, Ms. Bronson worked as a law clerk for a variety of non-profit, for-profit, and governmental organizations, including the Trust for Public Land, the Office of the California Attorney General, CafePress.com, Inc., and the Shute, Mihaly & Weinberger law firm. As a newly admitted attorney, Ms. Bronson clerked in the Law and Motion Department of the Santa Cruz Superior Court, where she advised the court's research attorneys and judges on civil litigation matters. After her superior court clerkship, Ms. Bronson focused on civil litigation and legal research at the Santa Cruz law firm, Bosso Williams. In 2011, Ms. Bronson joined Kennedy, Archer & Harray as a civil litigator. Her practice at the firm includes all aspects of insurance defense, public entity representation, business and real property litigation. Ms. Bronson is a member of the State Bar of California and the Santa Cruz County Bar Association. She currently serves as Judicial Liaison for The Advocates, a subsection of the Santa Cruz County Bar Association for newly admitted attorneys.

Cassie Bronson
Cassie Bronson

cbronson@kahlaw.net

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